Winter Schools 2024 - 2025

Intercultural Competence

This winter school is designed for those who are curious and wish to develop specific abilities to foster intercultural sensitivity and bridge differing cultural systems.

Narrative and the Mind

This edition of the Netherlands Winter School on Narrative focuses on the interplay between narrative and the mind. During the one-week course, lectures and workshops will examine how cognition is informed by narrativity, and how narratives are shaped by our cognitive engagement.

Climate Change and the Long-Term Future
Climate change is among the biggest challenges humanity faces today. How should individuals, societies, and humanity at large respond to climate change and other long-term challenges? In this winter school, different researchers will take a PPE perspective in exploring climate change and our ethical and political obligations towards future people.

Discourses of Sustainability Transitions
Why do words matter so much in the struggle to save our planet? Join us in South Africa as we explore how what and how we communicate shapes the future.

Promoting Sustainable Health Systems in Africa
This second edition of our interdisciplinary school in Arusha, Tanzania, will address through a series of lectures and workshops how better (inter)national law and governance can address new and existing health challenges in Africa and improve the long-term sustainability of health systems.

Commensality and Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Its Diasporas

This Winter School resolves around the theme of “commensality,” which means being at the same table and eating together, with literal and metaphorical implications for respecting differences among those who share a meal. As a field of growing research in the arena of public health, scholars now connect commensality and sociability to individual and communal well-being. In this Winter School, we propose to explore the theme of commensality through an interdisciplinary lens.